Could advanced AI turn us into eyelash mites?

What if humanity's future alongside superintelligent AI isn't extinction, but irrelevance? Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson dropped this mind-bending perspective at a recent New Zealand panel, comparing our potential future to microscopic creatures living in our eyelashes.

"The mites just 'know' that food magically shows up in their environment all the time," Stephenson says. — Read the rest

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